Table of Contents

The Role of the Hadley Cell in Atmospheric Circulation.- The Elementary Hadley Circulation.- Hadley Circulation Dynamics: Seasonality and the Role of Continents.- Changes in the Tropical Hadley Cell since 1950.- The Shape of Continents, Air-Sea Interaction, and the Rising Branch of the Hadley Circulation.- Year-to-Year Variability in the Hadley and Walker Circulations from NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Data.- ENSO, Atlantic Climate Variability, and the Walker and Hadley Circulations.- The Hadley and Walker Regional Circulations and Associated ENSO Impacts on South American Seasonal Rainfall.- Variability of the Hadley Circulation in the Past.- The Pacific Sector Hadley and Walker Circulation in Historical Marine Wind Analyses: Potential for Reconstruction from Proxy Data.- Holocene Records of Rainfall Variation and Associated ITCZ Migration from Stalagmites from Northern and Southern Oman.- Evolution of the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool and Hadley-Walker Circulation since the Last Deglaciation.- Late Quaternary Hydrologic Changes in the Arid and Semiarid Belt of Northern Africa: Implications for Past Atmospheric Circulation.- Variability of the Marine ITCZ over the Eastern Pacific during the Past 30,000 Years: Regional Perspective and Global Context.- Mount Logan Ice Core Evidence for Changes in the Hadley and Walker Circulations Following the End of the Little Ice Age.- Causes of Variability in the Hadley Circulation: Past and Future.- The Response of the Hadley Circulation to Climate Changes, Past and Future.- The Sensitivity of the Hadley Circulation to Past and Future Forcings in Two Climate Models.- Present-Day Climate Variability in the Tropical Atlantic: A Model for Paleoclimate Changes?.- Mechanisms of an Intensified Hadley Circulation in Response to Solar Forcing in the Twentieth Century.

Reviews

From the reviews: "This book aims to address the nature and causes of variation in the Hadley circulation ! . The great strength of this book lies in the combination of its three parts. It succeeds in combining 17 contributions from authoritative climatologists, palaeoclimatologists and modellers into a coherent volume. ! Overall, this is a superb book, which should be on all university bookshelves. It will be of value to researchers and students over a broad range of climate-related disciplines." (Gerard van der Schrier, The Holocene, Vol. 16 (4), 2006)